Rango is Industrial Light & Magic’s first full length animated feature starring Johnny Depp as the titular Rango, a chameleon suffering from an identity crisis as he finds himself removed from his comfy terrarium and desperately trying to blend into to the wild world around him. Before he knows it, he’s posing as sheriff in a rough and tumble frontier town called Dirt, where the life expectancy of a lawman is shorter than a sno-cone in July.

Starting at 7pm there a DJ, followed by the Rooftop Films presentation of the short film I.C. Waters, about the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Swim. The Polar Bear Swim is a Coney Island tradition. On New Year’s Day, the Polar Bear Club who swim off this beach all winter long invite the world to join them for a plunge in the near freezing Atlantic Ocean. Are these people just crazy or are the health benefits of cold water for real? This short film aims to find out!

Coney Island screenings will continue every Monday night through the end of August, with screenings of New York classics like Annie Hall and Moonstruck and newer releases like Iron Man 2 and Never Say Never, with Rooftop shorts before all of them.

Venue: On the Beach at Coney Island. W 12th and the beach, right near Luna Park.Train: Take the F train to Coney Island, walk to the beach and make a left.7:00 PM Live DJ8:30 PM Rooftop Films presents I.C. Waters8:40 PM RangoNo admission charge.

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Rooftop Films is a New York based non-profit whose mission is to engage diverse communities by showing independent movies in outdoor locations, producing new films, coordinating youth media education, and renting equipment at low cost to artists.